Byline: Rick Gosselin Dallas Morning NewsMarc Logan strolled out of the Washington locker room after practice one day last summer wearing a Players, Inc.'' T shirt.Players, Inc. is a marketing subsidiary of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), which throws the considerable weight of the union and its members behind such products as trading cards, interactive games and a clothing line. All are money makers. All funnel supplemental income into the pockets of players.How ironic. Ten years ago, Logan was a pawn in the NFL's effort to bust the union. Now he's a card carrying member of the NFLPA.Monday was the 10th anniversary of that NFL players' strike, which took the John Elways, Dan Marinos and Jerry Rices off the field for four weeks in 1987. But this is an anniversary the NFL doesn't care to celebrate.It was a waste of time from the players' point of view and a waste of time from management's point of view,'' Redskins general manager Charley Casserly said. It didn't accomplish anything.''But there is a host of players willing to argue that point. Logan and 19 other current NFL players were hired as replacement workers during the strike. They parlayed that chance a final chance for most into careers of Kevin Pierre-Louis Authentic Jersey surprising duration.Ten years later, former strike player Erik Kramer opened this season as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Darrick Brilz, Ray Brown and Jeff Criswell all start on NFL offensive lines. John Carney and Steve Bono have gone to a Pro Bowl. Brilz, Brown, Logan, Bono and Mike Prior wear Super Bowl rings.All have proved themselves to be bona fide football players. Back then, they were viewed merely as scabs.I wish everyone would forget about that,'' Logan said of his buried past. Every now and then, someone finds out and says, Aw, he was a scab.' It's like a joke now. But it wasn't a joke then.''Not to the union, http://www.nflseahawksofficialonline.com/Kevin_Norwood_Jersey_Seahawks anyway. The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) expired in August 1987 and negotiations were at a dead end. The holdup was free agency. Baseball players had it, winning their freedom in arbitration in the 1970s. Now football players wanted it.But the owners said no and continued to say no to all attempts by the union to include free agency in a new CBA. So the NFLPA decided to draw the line and force management's hand no contract and no free agency would mean no more games after Sept. 21.The NFL players had walked out for 57 days in 1982, almost destroying a season. The league wound up playing an abbreviated nine game schedule that year before crowning the Washington Redskins champion. Owners resolved their game would never be crippled like that again.So when the players threatened to walk in 1987, the owners schemed to replace them. NFLPA members didn't take that threat seriously.I can recall the players at the beginning saying, No one will go see that. No one can replace me. I wear No. 80, not some guy they put out there,' '' recalled Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFLPA then and now. Then all of a sudden, after a week or so, even though they couldn't replace them, there were guys out there.''Guys like former USFL star Eric Truvillion and an over the hill gang of veteran quarterbacks like Tony Adams, Vince Evans and John Reaves.But mostly the strikers were nobodies. Players not good enough to make NFL teams. Draft picks and free agents who had been cut loose in recent training camps, then hired back for the replacement games.Players like Logan. He was a fifth round pick by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1987 who lasted in camp until the final cut.Logan hadn't experienced rejection often in his football career. He had been a star running back in high school and college. He didn't know how many rejection slips he would be allotted by NFL teams before they stopped calling.I didn't know what I was doing, what I was getting into,'' Logan said. I was fresh into the league and didn't know anything about the game or the league. I viewed it as a chance to let people see me play. I felt my talent would be showcased. But it was a tough decision. Extremely tough.''Not for Criswell. He wasn't from Notre Dame or Alabama, or even Kentucky, where Logan played. Criswell played at tiny Graceland College in Iowa. He went undrafted out of college and couldn't get a look from the NFL. There were no calls from teams, no offers for tryouts, no invitations to training camp.So when the Indianapolis Colts called to offer him a job on their replacement team, he jumped. Forget the fact it was his first call. Criswell fretted it might be his only call.It was a very easy decision for me,'' said Criswell, now a starting tackle for Kansas City. That got me in the league.''Even after he made his decision to sign with the San Diego replacement team, Joe Phillips still wasn't sure it was the right thing to do. The former SMU defensive tackle had equal weights on his decision making scale his desire to play in the NFL was countered by his family's background in labor. His father was a Teamster, his grandfather a member of the boilermakers' union.I came from a family that worked for a living,'' Phillips said. To cross a union line was, well, different. I remember talking to my father about how professional athletics was different than a Teamsters' or ironworkers' strike. Football is something more fleeting.It was hard for me to equate a guy trying to earn a wage to support his family month to month with a professional athlete trying to go from $250,000 to $350,000. I really couldn't see how you could view those two groups as similar. Both are labor, but one group is compensated relatively exorbitant compared to that other.''

Gaming aficionados have been waiting for this holiday season when both Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) released their next gen consoles. XBox One and PS 4 are touted to be the biggest upgrades for the gaming console market and are being called the next gen consoles. These machines come equipped with higher processing power and memory, making them capable of delivering faster and improved gaming action. But these consoles can be successful only if gaming publishers develop relevant games. For now, publisher Electronic Arts (EA) seems to be prepared to handle this challenge.

Electronic Arts Financials Electronic Arts Q2 revenues fell marginally from $1.08 billion a chi flat iron year ago to $1.04 billion this quarter. The market was looking for revenues of $0.974 billion. EPS of $0.33 was also significantly ahead of the Street projections of $0.12 for the quarter.

By segment, digital revenues grew 11% chi hair straightener over the year to $348 million. Publishing and packaged goods revenues fell from $744 million a year ago to $670 million during the quarter. Mobile business remained strong and grew 19% over the year to $105 million.

For the current quarter, Electronic Arts projected revenues of $1.65 with EPS of $1.22, compared with the Street projections of revenues of $1.76 billion with uggs clearance EPS of $1.35. The company projected the year revenues at $4 billion with EPS of $1.25. The Street was looking for an EPS of $1.23.

EA Product Lineup EA has a slew of products lined up to cater to both the next gen consoles and the older versions of these consoles. The latest releases of their most popular games, 4, NFL 25, and 14, will all be available on the day of their release for these new consoles as well. The company will add to the new console gaming titles with the release of Live 14 and for Speed Rivals. Later next year, EA is planning to launch a new first person action experience from its partnership with Respawn Entertainment, Titanfall. Within mobile also, it plans to continue to expand its existing brands of vs. Zombies 2, 14, Simpsons and Racing. EA is also expanding its games to help with education opportunities. Last month, they tied up with GlassLab to release Pollution Challenge. This is one of their first new generation educational games that has been created as a game based classroom tool that uses the SimCity franchise to teach students about real world challenges. It has been developed for middle school students and focuses on encouraging them to think critically about modern day challenges besides providing a teaching tool for educators that integrates learning and assessment with the Next Generation Science and Common Core Standards.

First off, it very confusing to compare the two side by side, and that by design. When you look for comparisons, what you find is the same generalities at just about every site. Dish partners with Sirius for its music channels and DirectV offers XM (though if you realy like the audio only channels, Dish also offers it own CD quality channels in addition to the Sirius channels). You also find a lot of talk about how if you want general programming it's Dish, if you wants sports it's DirectV. However, in looking at the lineup, it really seems like that's pretty much only if you want to pay the extra for the premium sports packages like NFL Sunday Ticket. If you look at the lineups you get with the various packages, it seems to me that there are actually more sports channels with your regular programming Tom Savage Womens Jersey with Dish.

But from a subscriber perspective, that only tells part of the story. Here are some things I like about Dish better than DirectV.

With DirectV, you had to have a box for each room, and you would pay 5 or 6 bucks for each box beyond the first one. With Dish, you get one box that controls two rooms, or two boxes to control up to four rooms. There is only an additional charge if you have a DVR box, but the DVR is built into the box, so instead of paying 5 bucks for each box and 5 bucks for each DVR, you're paying 6 bucks for each DVR, but two 100 hour DVRs would cover 4 rooms, you'd need 4 DVRs to have that access in four rooms with DirectV. So, in most cases, Dish coms out to dcost less, though depending on your number of TVs, DVRs and the package you pick, it could be less for DirectV. I would need to offer up about 300 different scenarios to show you all the possibilities and compare them, and that's just impossible to do here, but I know that in any permutation that I would pick, Dish is a few bucks cheaper. Dish has a LOT more HD channels, but they charge $20 a month instead of $10, and a lot of the channels aren't the "big name" channels (though some are).

Dish has a ton of educational channels that DirectV doesn't. If you were a fan of MTV when they actually played videos, you will LOVE this channel. Another big thing is Encore being included in your highest level package (the one without the premium channels) at no extra charge, so it's like having a movie channel package without paying extra for it.

Dish has ALWAYS had more programming packages than DirectV, it used to have 5 packages vs. Direct's Louis Nix Jersey 4, now it has 6, so you can find something inbetween. I like the highest level standard pacakge (and it's still cheaper than the corresponding one from DirectV and has more channels that I watch. Having one box that controls two TVs is great as well, it saves room and I don't have to have a remote extender (or pay an extra box fee). I can watch my DVR programs from either room, I can watch one channel while recording another.

Bottom line, almost http://www.texansnflofficialauthentic.com/authentic-louis-nix-jersey.html everyone is happy with the reception, almost everyone is happy with the customer service, and the programming and pricing on both systems, and both are way better than cable. Yes, there are people who've had problem with one and not the other, and there are people who have specific reasons they like DirectV over Dish, but here's what I'd suggest. Go to both of their websites. But this is a case where you can pick based on price, because quality is going to be the same with either one. Though you can see if there is a money back guarantee just in case so you don't get stuck when you sign up for a one or two year agreement.

Timothy Richard "Tim" Tebow[1] (pronounced /tibo/; born August 14, 1987) is a Heisman Trophy winning American football quarterback for the Florida Gators. He was the first college football player to both rush and pass for 20 touchdowns in a season and was the first sophomore to win the Heisman.[2]

Tebow played quarterback for Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where he became a Division I A recruit and ranked among the top quarterback prospects in the nation as a senior.[3] After a tight recruiting battle, he chose to attend the University of Florida over the University of Alabama.[4] Tebow, being a dual threat quarterback adept at rushing and passing the football, was used in his freshman season largely as a change of pace to the Gators' more traditional quarterback, Chris Leak.[5] His contribution in the 2006 college football season was as a key reserve who helped the Gators win college football's national championship game for the first time since 1996.

As a sophomore in the 2007 season, he became the Gators' starting quarterback and broke the Southeastern Conference records for both rushing touchdowns and total touchdowns C.J. Fiedorowicz Jersey accounted for in a single season.[6] In addition to the Heisman Trophy, his performance in 2007 also earned him the Maxwell Award as the nation's top football player, the Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's best quarterback, and the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's most outstanding amateur athlete in any sport.

Tebow was born on August 14, 1987 in Makati City in the Philippines, to Bob and Pam Tebow, who were serving as Christian missionaries at the time.[1][7] While pregnant, Pam suffered a life threatening infection with a pathogenic amoeba. Because of the drugs used to rouse her from a coma and to treat her dysentery, the fetus experienced a severe placental abruption. Doctors expected a stillbirth and recommended an abortion to protect her life.[1]

All of the Tebow children were homeschooled by their mother, who worked to instill the family's Christian beliefs along the way.[8] In 1996, legislation was passed in Florida allowing homeschooled students to compete in local high school sporting events. The law specifies that homeschooled students may participate on the team of the local school in the school district in which they live.[9] The Tebows lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and Tim played linebacker and tight end at the local Trinity Christian Academy for one season. Tebow's preferred position was quarterback, but Trinity football team's offense did not rely on passing the football, so he began to explore his options to play for a new high school.[10] He decided to attend Nease High School, which under head coach Craig Howard was known for having a passing offense. With the rest of his family living texansnflofficialauthentic.com/authentic-cj-fiedorowicz-jersey.html on a farm in Duval County, Tim and his mother moved into an apartment in nearby St. Johns County, making him eligible to play for the football team at Nease. His performance soon turned heads and led to a minor controversy of him being a home schooled student having his choice of school to play for.[11].

Week 1 Bashaud Breeland Womens Jersey of the 2010 NFL Season is approaching and football fans are preparing to win their office pools. What can fans expect early into the season and how should they based their predictions on over/under odds? I regularly do straight picks and predictions against the spread, but wanted to try something else. I will do these every week along with my other series of prediction and sports articles. You can find them at the end of this article.

UPDATE 9 8 10: Updated with the most recent total spreads and the 2 MNF games. Good luck this week!

The New Orleans Saints have one of the league's most prolific offenses. It's even more prolific on turf. The Minnesota Vikings had one of the most potent offenses in the NFL last season, but they could struggle as Brett Favre gets into a rhythm with a depleted receiving core.

The Saints defense is opportunistic, but they're prone to giving up points. At worst, the Vikings should score 17 points. That means at most, the Saints need to score 32 points to cover the spread. The Saints have always fed off the emotion off their home crowd, and Saints fans will be amp'ed up. I see a Saints blowout or a shootout that will cover the 48.5 points in week 1.

The Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay are expected to be stagnant offenses. The Browns will be playing their first regular season game with Jake Delhomme, and the Buccaneers are still maturing with Josh Freeman.

This game should be low scoring. If it goes over 37, it won't be by much. Don't expect both teams to score over 20, although one team could reach 24. I'd expect a game in the teens.

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Week 1 NFL Totals Predictions: Miami Dolphins at Buffalo Bills (39)

Last year's games between these teams resulted in scores of 48 and 45. Miami scored 38 in one game Morgan Moses Womens Jersey while Buffalo scored 31 in another. Both teams have made off season acquisitions to their offenses that should prove beneficial. There's no reason to expect less than 39 points.

Will Terrell Owens immediately impact the Bengals offense? That's what this prediction comes down Morgan Moses Youth Jersey too. The Patriots scored 20 points or more in all their regular season home games last season, so it's seems safe to assume a minimal of 20 points. That still doesn't mean the Bengals can cover, but they should have trouble covering Owens and Johnson with their questionable secondary.

Flip a coin here. Could be 42 or it could be 48. The over/under is 45. I'm putting my faith in the offenses.

The Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans should have some of the NFL's most dynamic offenses. In 2009, these two teams combined for 62 points in Houston as the Colts won 35 27. Could early season sluggishness and familiarity impact the offenses in this game? My prediction is no.

The Denver Broncos and Jacksonville Jaguars are two running oriented teams who rely on their defenses. 20 point performances from David Garrard and Kyle Orton are the exception, not the norm. Unless the score is 24 17 or 27 17ish, I can't forecast a game over 40 points.

Pittsburgh is starting a third string quarterback. The Falcons have a young quarterback going into Pittsburgh to play against one of the league's fiercest defenses. This game screams defensive battle and offensive struggles.

The Oakland Raiders averaged less than 13 points per game in 2010, and their offensive woes will likely continue into this season. Vince Young is a proven regular season winning quarterback, but they're not an offensive juggernaut by any means.

This over/under could depend on Chris Johnson's ability to tear through the Oakland Raiders rushing defense. Even then, it's difficult taking the over when Oakland's offense is involved. Even with 17, the Titans need 24. First week of the season will probably increase sluggishness of both offenses.

My kitten, after being neutered, developed an upper respiratory infection, I took him to the vet, and it turned out he had feline herpes. The feline herpes and human herpes virus strains are different and cats cannot transmit this to humans and vice versaat least according to all the reading and research I have done. And yet, for the last two weeks when my cat was sick, I have had a nasty case of shingles (yes, I was diagnosed, and it is definitely shingles). So, I'm asking, could these illnesses be related in some way, or is this completely a huge coincidence?

The fact you have had chicken pox is the clue. Adults who have had chicken pox as children can often have bouts of shingles in adult life, this is because the virus stays in the body even after the chicken pox has resolved. These bouts of shingles often occur in times of stress when your immune system is compromised. However,occasional exposure to chicken pox as an adult can boost your immunity to Wholesale Jerseys the varicella (herpes zoster) virus, many adults who had chicken pox as children have never had shingles as adults because of this extra exposure.

posted by Arqa at 1:33 AM on March 28, 2008Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox. If you have had chickenpox, the varicella virus remains in a group of nerves in your central nervous system, but doesn't cause any symptoms. This is called a dormant virus. The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord, which are connected to the nerves in the body. When the virus becomes active again, it causes the symptoms of shingles. No one is sure why the virus becomes active. However, it seems to be linked to a weakened immune system, such as in people who are ill (such as with cancer or HIV), have had major surgery, or are taking immunosuppressant medications or drugs with cortisone.

It can also be triggered by skin trauma, such as sunburn or injury, and emotional stress. Although shingles is not contagious, someone who hasn't had chickenpox can develop chickenpox if they have contact with fluid from a shingles blister.

posted by kanemano at 3:34 AM on March 28, 2008 [1 favorite]

So, I can tell you from experience that Feline Herpesvirus will not infect humans, even though it is closely related to Varicella zoster virus. We use the virus in a virology lab I teach because, for among other reasons, it will not infect the students (and if it could, I would know because their aseptic technique is so terrible that several have probably wiped it all over their face by this point in the semester). We've not had any of the students come down with either chickenpox/shingles nor have they shown the Wholesale NFL Jerseys signs of an FHV infection.

As for your shingles, it is stress Cheap Jerseys causing reactivation (unless you've been out in the sun more with the warming weather?).

posted by The Bishop of Turkey at 6:08 AM on March 28, 2008 [3 favorites]

I think it's possible both of your inherent infections flared up because of the same cause, like other infection that can be common to you both.

posted by cmiller at 6:46 AM on March 28, 2008

I thin it's worth pointing out that it's pretty common for both cats and humans to have an infection or virus flareup after a physically stressful event like surgery. Your kitties neutering operation probably hit his immune system enough for the (probably alreadypresent) virus to get a hold and he got sick.

I had to put off neutering my female kitten when she was recovering from ringworm because the vet said the operation will trigger a relapse same deal and she wasn't spayed yet when I got her because her cage mates had come down with an upper respiratory tract virus immediately after their neutering and the rescuers didn't want mine to catch it too. So actually that's where the blame lies, nothing to do with you or your kids and it's not something you could have predicted ahead of time. I'm kind of surprised your vet didn't mention it, the timing is pretty common.

You did the right thing both by getting him neutered in the first place and taking him to the vet once the infection started and he should recover just fine. Your shingles flare up may even Cheap NFL Jerseys be due to the stress of a sick kitten, meaning they are related just not how you thought.

posted by shelleycat at 2:23 PM on March 28, 2008

Perhaps the kitty virus in the environment, while it can't infect you, did "annoy" your immune system enough to wake up the chicken pox virus?

posted by gjc at 4:17 PM on March 28, 2008

From the link mentioned above, I notice they say most people only get shingles once, if they do. I have known a number of people who got it more than once, although probably all of them were older.

Since no one has mentioned it, they do have a vaccine for that now. I don't know if it's considered helpful after you've had it or not. As a general rule, it's recommended for those over 60, but maybe it makes a difference if you've already proven you can have it earlier. I understand the general concensus is that 60 is where those who have had chicken pox start getting it. I think it's worth asking your doctor about it.

For the benefit of anyone older who passes through, the doctors' offices in our state are shooting everyone before they retire, as they say Medicare is not covering it but insurance will, and it's expensive. Your doctor will know all these things, I just thought I'd offer you some questions you might want to ask.